My interview of Michael Richards during my stay with him in Cedar Rapids. 4 parts, enjoy!
Read more →I just read an interesting interview at Truth-Out with Henry Rollins, who has been traveling to many of the hardest, war-torn places around the world for the last decade as a kind of “punk rock journalist.” The interview explores Rollin’s book of his journey, called Occupants. From the article preceding the interview, “I want to [...]
Read more →One thing a Visionary Troubadour does is cross pollinate the visionary communities he comes across. Like a bee who has visits flower after flower, pollinating the flowers without intending to, the VT pollinates various communities both intentionally and unintentionally with ideas, connections, senses of life, etc. On my travels back in 2008, I spent 2 [...]
Read more →I first heard the term, Visionary Troubadour, from a visionary musician friend and ally of mine, Shawn Madden. This man is currently in sailing the high seas of transformational adventure, musical inspiration and global awakening on his 100-Day Fully Alive Tour 2012. I just read a post on his Fully Alive Tour blog about how [...]
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6 plane flights, 3 bus rides, several hours of waiting time in between each, a steep hike up a hill, and I’m back in Ouro Preto, Brasil again! For some reason when I’m in South America, I feel the “Visionary Troubadour” vibe much stronger… I had 10 great weeks in Australia, gifted to me, and [...]
Read more →(sharing a note to my ExploreForce group today) … Ben, I heard you say you’ve been facing some depression… and I really wish to honor the reality of your experience, which your words invite us to touch… What if we can profoundly honor that which touches our hearts and bodies… regardless of it’s color, shape, [...]
Read more →Carnival starts in just a few days, and this beautiful town is ALIVE with samba drumbeats every night. It’s a sunny day here in the mountains of Ouro Preto, and as I sat down to continue writing my Visionary Troubadour book, I came across this story from six months back when I was in the [...]
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It’s 4:27am Saturday morning here in Ouro Preto, Brasil, and they’re still going at it. Down in the valley somewhere, they’re beating drums. They’ve been doing it since maybe 9 or 10pm. They’re preparing for Carnival, just as they’ve been doing almost every night since I arrived here. They’re probably going later tonight than usual [...]
Read more →When talking about currency, we tend to think of money and what that money can buy. But let’s look at currency in terms of giving and receiving. There is much that we both give and receive in life outside the realm of money, and becoming conscious of this can open up a new world of [...]
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Why the Visionary Troubadour path for me right now? Well, Che Guevara, who’s hometown I’ve been staying in for the past few weeks in Argentina, has an answer, “Let the world change you and you can change the world.” So… I’ve been letting go of trying to “change the world,” and am now inviting and [...]
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The Visionary Troubadour enjoys a life rich in gifts from others, and rich in the gratitude and love that is generated as one gifts to others. The path of the Visionary Troubadour is made possible by converting many of your monetized transactions into gifting transactions, while also possibly finding ways to generate streams of cash [...]
Read more →Now that the blog and podcast are set up, and the ebook is almost ready, I’m excited to continue interviewing “Visionary Troubadours” I meet as I travel, as well as others who can give people deep tastes of their cultures, and/or who can help you to make your journey. Next: Louis, An 18-Year-Old from the [...]
Read more →“Yes, I’m British! I love to queue, I want my tea and I need to go.” I’m laughing at my young British friend’s retort to my teasing him about being so responsible. He’s here in South America for 7 months, and he’s got a bunch of schedules he feels obligated to keep. A beautiful kid. [...]
Read more →So, interesting developments in the last 24 hours here. Within the last 24 hours I’ve found out that both the people that were going to host me the next few weeks can’t host me (one couple her in Cordoba and a Brasilian girl in Rio), and yet I’ve booked my flight to Rio based on [...]
Read more →It occurs to me more and more as I travel on this path that there are ways of communicating that facilitate the world opening up to you, facilitate mutual trust, facilitate compassion and understanding, facilitate walking the path. And I’m finding different words and different phrases from different languages and cultures, which I can use [...]
Read more →A Brasilian friend recently challenged me to take on the year-long practice of A Course In Miracles. He and another Brasilian friend have invited me to this work after having experiencing my Honor Window and related honoring work, and sharing with me how aligned my work is with A Course In Miracles. Indeed, the Honor [...]
Read more →So as I was pricing tickets to Rio today, I received an invitation from a local Cordobes couple to “couchsurf” with them next week. I met them at a CouchSurfing gathering earlier this week, and we shared a passionate conversation about the virtues of traveling deeply beyond one’s culture and exploring new ways of life. [...]
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So, I’m sitting in a cozy little hostel here in Cordoba, Argentina pondering lap tops, hostels and A Course In Miracles. There’s a really sweet family vibe here at Tango Hostel, and it’s far nicer and cozier than other hostels I’ve stayed in. It’s under new ownership, and the three new owners are in their [...]
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So, this web site is not yet ready to go, but it’s time to start blogging. I feel some hesitancy to begin revealing the intimacies of my journey, and often have doubts about how public I desire my life to be. Many times last year in Brasil, I contemplated just disappearing there… leading a very [...]
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As you consider embarking on a life of grand travel, connecting deeply to inspired peoples across cultures, rest assured that there are countless ways to monetize your adventures. And even though the Visionary Troubadour is gifted many things, and lives with ease without much need for money, it helps to have sources of revenue you [...]
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Drum Beat of the Visionary Troubadour